I've tried about everything including different jumper settings, another
cable, testing the Samsung drive,connecting only the Samsung drive as
"Master" without the other hard drive at all. I've also deleted the
partition on each drive so that neither has an OS installed. Even though the
computer won't boot, when I check the BIOS the Samsung drive is always
showing as the Slave when connected either alone or with the other drive.
The only way I get a normal Master/slave indication is when the Master cable
end goes to the Maxtor drive and the Slave end to the Samsung drive. Then I
get Maxtor as Primary Master and Samsung as Primary Slave.
"Dixonian69" <Dixonian69@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:26D7A516-F42F-4F82-B30C-DE2999E0DB0E@microsoft.com...
> set jumper for
> Samsung as Master and master on ribbon cable
> Maxtor as slave and slave on ribbon cable
>
> OR
>
> set jumper for
> Samsunsung as Cable Select and master on ribbon cable
> Maxtor as Cable Select and slave on ribbon cable
>
> "mk" wrote:
>
>> Just to add to my last post: I tried switching the ribbon cable, using
>> the
>> "primary master" end on the Maxtor drive and the "primary slave" end on
>> the
>> Samsung drive and both drives were recognized. But I would still like
>> the
>> Primary Master to be the Samsung drive.
>>
>> "mk" <mk@unknown.net> wrote in message
>> news:Osg9EbvAGHA.740@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>> >I have a Dell dimension 4100 with the original primary master 10GB
>> >Maxtor
>> >hard drive and a primary slave 60GB Maxtor drive. The 60GB drive was
>> >added
>> >a few years ago. The OS is Win XP Pro and resides on the 60 GB drive.
>> >All
>> >has worked well for years.
>> >
>> > I just moved the 60GB drive to a new computer and replaced it with
>> > another
>> > hard drive (30GB Samsung) in the original Dell computer. I changed the
>> > drives so that the Samsung drive would be the primary master and the
>> > Maxtor 10GB the primary slave. However, the bios will only acknowledge
>> > the primary slave position, no matter which drive I connect to it. I
>> > have
>> > tried the jumpers in both the Master/Slave and Cable Select positions.
>> > Previously it was set up in the Cable Select jumper positions.
>> >
>> > Why won't the bios now recognize the Primary Master position? Can
>> > anyone
>> > give me some ideas?
>> >
>>
>>
>>